TSM checks

I have a unix based script that runs a couple of commands against a TSM server. The command returns output which is then parsed and parts extracted to create variables passed to another TSM command which is run. Then details are emailed out.

Can anyone recommend which probe I could maybe use to do this in Nimsoft or should I just create a Windows script version of this and run under Windows?

You can use the logmon probe to run the script and then you can retrieve the output via logmon and do what you need to do with it weather it be qos or alarm. That would probably be your best bet unless of course you implement the nimqos and nimalarm binaries into the script to do what you need to do. This does require a robot to be on the system of course.

I agree with Neal that this is a good job for the logmon probe. It can run the command and watch the output for whatever messages indicate a problem.

If you want to go with the script option, you could have a script that runs on Windows or Unix. You would not have to move the script to Windows just to make it work with NMS. The Unix server just has to be running the Nimsoft robot. You can code a script using one of the Nimsoft SDKs for a supported language, or you can use any scripting language with the commands that Neal mentioned--nimalarm, nimqos, etc.